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Eerie the eel’s head.

This full, plum-sleeked fruit of evolution.

- Ted Hughes

An eel is wielded in the bottom margin of f. 242r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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It's a bird! It's a plane! Moooooo! It's a flying cow in the bottom margin of f. 180r in Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible written in France. #drollerydonnerstag

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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!

- John Keates

A deathless bird dances in the bottom margin of f. 226v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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Little boy blue, come blow your horn!

A half-man, half-wolf, half... something toots his own horn in the bottom margin of f. 191r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss! An eel and a fish share a secret embrace in the bottom margin of f. 184v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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Another delightful blue bird! We're running out of poetry about birds. This manuscript has so many of them! This one is in the bottom margin of f. 175r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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Not all drolleries are well-loved. There used to be something here, but it was washed away ages ago. What do you think it could have been? Whatever it was, it was in the bottom margin of f. 213r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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There are no limits to what is possible! Today's lesson from the fish who flies around in the top margin of f. 184v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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Is it behind the rabbit?

IT IS THE RABBIT

The hunter becomes the hunted in the top margin of f. 191r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible #drollerydonnerstag

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From troubles of the world I turn to ducks.

- F. W. Harvey

An arguable blue duck flies low in the bottom margin of f. 230r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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John, John, the grey goose is gone

and the fox is on the town-o!

- The Fox (folk song)

A wolf carries a chicken in the upper margin of f. 228r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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Biiiiiiiiig stretch!! A little bunny loosens his muscles in the bottom margin of f. 166r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible written in France

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